Week 10 Communication Arts

What author created Mr. Johnson, Harry Morgan, Catherine Barkley, and Frederic Henry in the novels To Have and Have Not and A Farewell to Arms?

Answer explanation

Ernest Hemingway

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What author wrote nonsense poems about the Snark and the Jabberwock, and also wrote of the Cheshire cat and the Mad Hatter in Alice in Wonderland?

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Lewis Carroll

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Sicily's Messina is the setting of which Shakespeare play in which Claudio, Hero, Beatrice, and Benedick see a big deal made of an unfounded rumor?

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He won a National Book Award for a novel about John Grady Cole, All the Pretty Horses. Name this contemporary American author, who later won a Pulitzer Prize for his post-apocalyptic novel The Road.

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Cormac McCarthy

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Cormac McCarthy wrote this novel set on the Mexican border that features the killer Anton Shihgur; it was made into a film by the Coen brothers.

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This author wrote about a Roman murder trial in his epic poem The Ring and the Book. Name this Victorian poet of "Porphyria's Lover" who married fellow poet Elizabeth Barrett.

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Robert Browning

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While visiting the beach with Marie Cardona, Meursault kills an Arab in this Albert Camus novel.

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This Jean-Paul Sartre play featuring Ines, Estelle, and Garcin includes the declaration "Hell is other people."

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One work by this author follows the adventures of Axel and Otto Lidenbrock, while another features a valet named Passepartoo and his fastidious employer Phileas Fogg. Name this French author of Around the World in Eighty Days.

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Jules Verne

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What author, who wrote about Juvenal Urbino and his wife Fermina Daza in Love in the Time of Cholera, also wrote One Hundred Years of Solitude?

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Gabriel Garcia-Marquez

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